Mizrahi

High Court of Justice strikes down police ID-check procedures due to racial profiling

The ruling cancels two sections of police procedure: Requiring ID based on generalized “concern” of an offense, and verifying a person’s details on the police computer without reasonable suspicion.

 The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem
 Ben-Gurion University campus in Beersheba, southern Israel. May 28, 2023.

Bereaved parents call on Ben-Gurion University to dismiss prof. who called IDF soldiers 'murderers'

 Jewish girls at a school performance in Benghazi, Lybia.

Zionism beyond Europe: Restoring the Mizrahi narrative in Jewish education - opinion

Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, shakes the hand of a cab driver while campaigning in Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood during early voting, in New York City, U.S., October 27, 2025

Jews from the Middle East know Mamdani is a threat to Israel – opinion


World Mizrachi sending speakers to address 70,000 Jews for Israel’s 70th

The head of the Mizrachi World Movement said that initiative was part of an effort to revitalize religious-Zionism and the Mizrachi movement, which he said have lost their center.

PEOPLE WATCH the Israel Air Force Aerobatic team fly over the Mediterranean Sea during Independence Day celebrations in Tel Aviv, 2017

Orientalism and the invention of an Ashkenazi identity in Israel

How did “Ashkenazi” in Israel become synonymous with “liberal” and “Left,” and how has being “Ashkenazi” become a marker for being a “victim” of the Israeli Right?

AN ISRAELI flag near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Giving Mizrahim an equal seat at the table

If we want to reach our potential as a Jewish community, we must start to fully include members of our family who have far too often been forgotten.

Rachel Sandler and brother Hertzel Hasson, Mizrahi Jews, give an interview in 2007

The problem of Arab imperialist Jews

As the son of Zionist Iraqi Jewish mother and a North-African Berber father, I am appalled by their distortion of history.

A JEWISH shrine containing the tomb of the prophet Ezekiel in the Iraqi town of Kifl, south of Baghdad. The author describes his last Passover in Iraq.

‘Salah – here is Eretz Yisrael’

To the present day the attitude of many Mizrahim towards the Left in general and the Labor Party in particular is still affected much more by past events than by current ideologies.

Avi Gabbay speaking at AIPAC, March 4, 2018

Prof. Edwin Seroussi to be awarded Israel Prize for musicology

Education Minister Naftali Bennett approved the recommendation of the prize committee headed by Prof. Eitan Steinberg.

Hebrew University campus

A captivating clothing collection

The ‘Je t’aime, Ronit Elkabetz’ exhibition pays homage to the revered Israeli icon.

The ‘Je t’aime, Ronit Elkabetz’ exhibition pays homage to the revered Israeli icon

A pyramid of vibrancy

Under the directorship of Gil Goren and with a NIS 12 million grant from Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav, the Pyramid Art Center aims high while recognizing a troubled past.

Paintings by Yehuda Yatziv

Darkhorse candidate in Meretz race hopes for surprise win

Avi Dabush, whose parents were born in Libya and Syria, would bring a new identity to Meretz, which has never had a Sephardi leader.

Meretz Bus 521

Je t’aime, Ronit Elkabetz

Elkabetz is one of Israel’s most treasured actresses. Born to a Moroccan family in Beersheba, Elkabetz started her career as a model and transitioned to acting in the late 1980s.

ELKABETZ BACKSTAGE in 1986.